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Every day someone asks me to join their new online gang. They don’t call them gangs, of course. The buzz word is network. For sure some of the invitations have genuine merit. But most of them are just about gangs, set up to serve the leader’s agenda, rather than real networks of mutual interest. 
We all know that scope creep, lack of resources and change are the three greatest enemies of cost-effective IT development projects. In the commercial sector we move heaven and earth to avoid these risks – and yet they seem to be endemic to the management culture within public sector computing. Public Administration Committee Good governance: the effective use of IT Tuesday 8 March 2011 Committee Room 6 Meeting started at 10.33am ended at 12.33pm Witnesses Professor Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute, Dr Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute, and Dr Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics Professor Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, and Sir Ian Magee, Institute for Government. 
Geopolitical events of 2011 have demonstrated the power of so-called Social Media, leading to terms being coined such as “Facebook revolution.” However, I believe that it is Twitter that has now matured into the de facto interactive, multi-channel broadcasting media that facilitates effective, dynamic discussion at every level: parochial, regional, national and global. 
Organizational scars, like bodily scars, are borne forever and affect us long after the causal events. This may seem very simplistic. But it is an important perspective for every business to recognise the persistently damaged areas of the organizational nervous system. |
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